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Articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Index for music-related journal articles, books, dissertations, and more.
Repetoire International de Litterature Musicale's index to musical literature, 1969 to present. Indexes journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and other materials.
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes the academic journal "Music & the Moving Image" and several entertainment industry publications such as "Billboard", "Rolling Stone", "Entertainment Weekly", "Variety" and more.
Film & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is an online tool for film and television research with cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in almost every subject area. A great starting point for any topic.
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles from popular magazines and reference books covering multidisciplinary topics.
Full text for nearly 1,750 general periodicals, most of which are included in Academic Search Complete. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal articles, books, and primary sources in a wide variety of disciplines.
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Current Events - Newspapers

New York Times (Historical Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
Full-text page images of the newspaper, including advertisements, editorial cartoons, etc. Coverage is from 1851 up to the past three years and includes the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times Magazine.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
News articles from U.S. and international newspapers, and TV and radio transcripts.
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc.

Mainstream Music News

PressReader Newspapers and Magazines This link opens in a new window
PressReader provides full-color, full-text access to thousands of newspapers and magazines from 120 countries and in more than 60 different languages. 1 year of extended back issues.
Click on the title above, or download the app using this URL: https://about.pressreader.com/download-app/

AllMusic
Biographies, discographies, reviews, and essays on [mostly] popular music.
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
From the American Musicological Society.
Billboard.com
Charts of top song, available by genre. Historical archive of charts also available.
Wikipedia